Posted on 09/26/2007 9:17:20 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Sign of the times
Is Los Angeles — and its movie-making mavens — as liberal as is generally assumed? Not according to Steve Finefrock, the founder of the Hollywood Conservative Forum.
“One-quarter, maybe even one-third of the people making a living in Hollywood are conservative,” he told an audience at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “If you include Arnold Schwarzenegger-type conservatives, it could be as high as 45 percent. But they keep their mouths shut.”
Finefrock, a former Democrat and a writer of relatively obscure screenplays, began his organization in 2005. In the organization’s first newsletter, he wrote: “Let the Forum be the meeting place, first by e-mail, then in person to get acquainted in Hollywood’s watering holes, then scheme to blast a hole in Hollywood’s left-wing dominance of what we see in TV and the movies.”
In order to affect the culture, he argues, Hollywood’s right-wingers need only to reduce the film industry’s output from “98 percent” liberal to about “80 percent.”
Finefrock says because conservative penetration is already so high, “We don’t have to slip in behind the lines, we just have to find our Moses.”
Charlton Heston, sadly, no longer is working.
You can wtach my movie “Witless Protection” come spring ‘08. It stars Larry the Cable Guy, a good conservative Christian American. Of course, it is a silly comedy, so don’t expect “Citizen Kane.”
That means faux conservatives. Schwarzy is a liberal.
As long as it’s not “Delta Farce!”
I am forever amazed at how Jesus name is used in movies...why use that name as a cuss word? It amazes and sickens me.
Anymore Crossfire Trail efforts in your future? That was a good John Wayne style western.
Liberals like to whine about the 1950’s and the so called Hollywood “blacklist”. The dirty little secret is that the blacklist is still around, only the names on the list are now conservatives who won’t keep their mouths shut.
“But they keep their mouths shut.”
Good for them. They’ve figured out that the public wants to be entertained by them, not subjected to their political opinions.
I sure hope not. Larry and I think “Witless” is a much better movie. We’ll see what the ticket-buying public has to say in a few months...
Thanks so much for mentioning “Crossfire” in the same sentence with the Duke!
I am working on another western, but it’s only in the early stages right now.
BTW, for television, "John from Cincinnati" is really different, but captivating. HBO has gotten some decent original programming. ("Rome" was fantastic.)
Jesus name as a cuss word is standard in Hollywood movies these days. I think the last movie I saw that was free of it was “We Are Marshall” (great movie btw) but I can’t think of another recent movie like that.
I’m not sure it’s true that outspoken conservatives don’t get work in Hollywood. Cyrus Nowrasteh, who wrote “The Path to 9/11,” has been quite vocal - and he seems to be doing fine. I have never gotten the feeling that I lost out on a gig because of my politics, even though everyone knows where I stand.
“Rome” is brilliant. I think it ranks up there with “I, Claudius.”
Most of the conservatives working in Hollywood are below the line folks, the blue collar types who drive the trucks, pull the cable, hammer the sets together, etc. The liberal loudmouths are higher visibility individuals like actors, directors, writers etc. These are the self-important “creative” types who tend to be left wingers.
You’re welcome. Good job.
Crossfire Trail is one of my five favorite westerns of the last 30 years. Wayne`s films have been at the top of my list for over 50 years.
If people stopped buying the garbage that comes out of Hollywood, boycotted it’s programming, movies and music, people could make a difference.
The Duke. They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
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